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Author: Christopher H. Turnor
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 648
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Author: Christopher H. Turnor
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Hatton Turnor
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Monika Elbert
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014-07-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0817357793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Civil War experience. Rather than privileging particular genres or certain well-known writers, the contributors examine writings ranging from novels and poetry to autobiography, utopian fiction, and essays. And they consider familiar figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson alongside such lesser-known writers as Melusina Fay Peirce, Susie King Taylor, and Mary Gove Nichols. Each essay revises the binary notions that have been ascribed to males and females, such as public and private, rational and intuitive, political and domestic, violent and passive. Although they do not deny the existence of separate spheres, the contributors show the boundary between them to be much more blurred than has been assumed until now.
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 518
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Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-03-16
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 900450379X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres.
Author: Michael R Lynn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1317324161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBallooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness.
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 0307908704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 122
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